No, no, NO, you do NOT remake The Birds! Bad Hollywood! Bad!
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No, no, NO, you do NOT remake The Birds! Bad Hollywood! Bad!
Idiots.
Basing it on the original story is one thing, since the Hitchcock version deviated substantially, but this is... This is crap.
And I'm not happy with remakes at the moment, anyway, because of the awful Halloween remake.
Basing it on the original story is one thing, since the Hitchcock version deviated substantially, but this is... This is crap.
And I'm not happy with remakes at the moment, anyway, because of the awful Halloween remake.
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Re: No, no, NO, you do NOT remake The Birds! Bad Hollywood!
Well, I heard Disturbia, which was kind of a remake of Rear Window, wasn't half bad.ravaged_warrior wrote:Idiots.
Basing it on the original story is one thing, since the Hitchcock version deviated substantially, but this is... This is crap.
And I'm not happy with remakes at the moment, anyway, because of the awful Halloween remake.
But yeah, this is a very bad idea. Why remake something if it was good already?
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Re: No, no, NO, you do NOT remake The Birds! Bad Hollywood!
Because they want people to think it will be good by associating it with the original. You wouldn't film a remake of, say, Track Of The Moonbeast and expect anyone to show up for any other reason except to see how bad it is, would you?Dreamer wrote:But yeah, this is a very bad idea. Why remake something if it was good already?
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Completely unneccessary, as the original was just fine! Can't Hollywood get past this remake everything fix they've got? Can we start to see something original again? There's something screwy when I walk past a cinema sign in 2007, smart phone in my pocket and behind the wheel of a hybrid car, and if I were just reading the sign, I'd think it were 1978!
Taking a Gestalt approach, since it's the "in" thing...
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It's because Hollywood has degenerated into a business; they make only what they think they could profit on instead of what deserves to be made, and after so long running as just a business with profit being the only concern, they're desperate. They will remake anything and everything that they can remake as long as they think they could make a buck off of it (didn't we all agree Alvin & The Chipmunks was the current lowest point?). Remakes are cheaper because the scripts are already there, and they think they could make just as money off of a remake because they think we're too dumb to tell the difference (and some people are that dumb, but not as many as they think).Scott Gardener wrote:Completely unneccessary, as the original was just fine! Can't Hollywood get past this remake everything fix they've got? Can we start to see something original again? There's something screwy when I walk past a cinema sign in 2007, smart phone in my pocket and behind the wheel of a hybrid car, and if I were just reading the sign, I'd think it were 1978!
Just think of it this way though: If this pattern of producing remakes that are crappier than the last remake progresses, by the time we all finish our books and movie scripts, they'll be so desperate they'll be making remakes of their crap remakes and our stuff will look like gold by comparison. WE WILL ALL GET MOVIE DEALS!
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)Terastas wrote:they'll be so desperate they'll be making remakes of their crap remakes and our stuff will look like gold by comparison
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Body Snatchers (1993)
The Invasion (2007)
Better hurry.
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The day they start remaking Stanley Kubrick films... is they day I start hunting for human heads. They are really pushing me to the edge by remaking some of my favorite classics. If they even DARE touch "Citizen Kane"... I don't have to lift a finger, because someone will murder them for it. I'm suprised there isn't enough people in an uproar about the remaking of The Birds.
I hope the next dozen remakes sell horribly, so they'll try to go back to original stuff.
I hope the next dozen remakes sell horribly, so they'll try to go back to original stuff.
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You really think that they're above that?Kaebora wrote:The day they start remaking Stanley Kubrick films... is they day I start hunting for human heads.
...Lolita says no. It MIGHT be based more on the book than Kubrick's (it sounds like something that could be gotten away with more in '97), but there's your Stanley Kubrick remake right there.
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I not all that much of a fan of the original anyways. I'll let this one slide, unless it taints the original beyond recognition.ravaged_warrior wrote:You really think that they're above that?Kaebora wrote:The day they start remaking Stanley Kubrick films... is they day I start hunting for human heads.
...Lolita says no. It MIGHT be based more on the book than Kubrick's (it sounds like something that could be gotten away with more in '97), but there's your Stanley Kubrick remake right there.
You know, more than half of the original movies that have come out are making more money than the remakes, on average. Mostly the ones based on books and comics are the Blockbusters. Nothing wrong with book movies if they haven't been done before.
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Heh, heard rumors of this about a year ago now...should be interesting... Man, if they have to do a remake, have some freaking eagles and hawks attack people! They will do a hell of a lot more damage to someone than crows and sparrows lol I think a swan chasing me would be scary, those suckers can be big....oooh or an ostrich chasing people down I should be writing scripts, I'm a genius
Some remakes are better than the originals at least...or improves on them anyways. Granted their are a lot more crappy, forgettable remakes out there.
Some good ones:
The Fly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers('78 )
The Thing
Scarface
But yeah, more bad than good...this'll probably turn out to be crappy too.
Some remakes are better than the originals at least...or improves on them anyways. Granted their are a lot more crappy, forgettable remakes out there.
Some good ones:
The Fly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers('78 )
The Thing
Scarface
But yeah, more bad than good...this'll probably turn out to be crappy too.
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I was honestly still riding on the hope that this was an unsubstantiated rumor, even when I made the thread. Then I read this. It's from five days ago.
That quote scares the hell out of me.Naomi Watts wrote:"I haven't read the script yet... They're still working on it and making sure it's just right."
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HOLLYWOOD, I WILL f*** CUT YOU! STOP IT! JUST f*** STOP!
Here's the best part:
Here's the best part:
Keanu Reeves .... Klaatu
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Oh good lord! The original wasn't that good to begin with!ravaged_warrior wrote:HOLLYWOOD, I WILL {censored} CUT YOU! STOP IT! JUST {censored} STOP!
Here's the best part:Keanu Reeves .... Klaatu